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Chapter 246 Zhang Xutuo arrives

Although Gao Jianwu and Yizhi Wende reported the news, many people still knew about the news of the military's outage of food. Various rumors spread everywhere in the military, "The military's outage of food!"

"There are only seven days of food left in the army!"

"Who said that, I heard that there is only three days of food left!"

"I heard that the food transported was intercepted by the Sui army halfway in the Daliang River. All the food was burned by fire, and all the people who delivered the food were killed by the Sui army." Another soldier said mysteriously.

"Impossible. All the Sui army were surrounded by us in Liaodong City. Will they still grow wings and fly to Daliangshui to rob the grain?"

"Oh my God, what should we do? If there is no food, wouldn't we starve to death?"

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But no matter how it spreads, no one believed that there was only one day's food left in the army. Because everyone thought it was impossible. If there was only one day's food left, why didn't there be any news before? And how could the general and the prince and the others stop the army from cutting off their food without finding a way to solve it? So in their opinion, perhaps there were only three or seven days of food left in the army, which sounds a bit convincing.

The entire Liao army camp was worried, and everyone began to believe that the army was really out of food. From time to time, a group of soldiers secretly ran to the logistics camp, trying to steal some food from it. But at this time, the logistics camp was already surrounded by Gao Jianwu's guards, and even an ant could not enter, let alone these living people.

Rumors were everywhere in the camp and people were volatile. Some soldiers were worried that they would starve to death and began to run away. In just one morning, the soldiers on duty had already caught hundreds of deserters, some of whom ran away alone, and some even more than a dozen people fled with weapons.

Gao Jianwu issued a merciless order to execute all the fleeing soldiers publicly, and sent additional personnel to supervise the army. Anyone who dared to spread rumors would be killed on the spot. Countless heads fell to the ground, and for a moment, the entire camp was even more panicked.

After learning about these situations, the Marine, Shiwei, and Baekje families who had already arranged the camp together could not sit still. When they came, they only brought the food on the way. After arriving in Liaodong, all the logistics food supply was responsible for the Goguryeo people. Now there are only two or three days of food left in various camps. If this army really has no food, they will be finished.

Tie Anda and others, who felt the situation was serious, rushed to Liuhe City and asked Gao Jianwu for food from Yizhi Wende. If Gao Jianwu gave food, it means that the rumors were fake, and then they continued to sit here and watch the tiger fight. But if the Goguryeo people did not give food, it would definitely mean that Goguryeo was really out of food, so no matter what, they would not be able to sit here and wait to starve to death.

In the commander's tent of Yizhi Wende, after getting the three people's intentions, Gao Jianwu was very happy to receive them.

Without any concealment, Ban Jianwu said frankly, "The army is indeed as rumored, and there is no food left in the army. Moreover, it is not the rumor that there are still three or five grains, but there is only one day of food left. By tomorrow, the entire army will have no food to eat!"

It was like a thunderclap that shocked Fu Yuzhang and the other two to the outside and the inside, and no one expected that things had reached this point.

Tie An stood up with a roar, turned around and was about to walk out. Gao Jianwu was stunned for a moment, "Where is General Tie going?"

Tie An answered and looked at Gao Jianwu, sneered, "Where are you going? You are going back to the grassland. The army has lost food. Do you still have to let the eight thousand warriors of Wei from our room accompany you to starve to death?"

Yizhi Wende snorted, "I just don't know how much food there is in General Iron's hand? It's not close to the prairie here. I'm afraid you can only starve to death halfway through the way, right? If you can't convert food, then I advise you to sit down and listen to my opinion."

After hesitating for a moment, Tie Anda finally threw down his cloak and walked back. He sat cross-legged, turned his head to the side, and said coldly, "I want to hear what magic you have to create 300,000 people's food at once!"

"I really can't make a grain, but there is a place in Liaodong that has food. The food there is not only enough for 300,000 people to eat, but even 3 million people can't finish it for a year or two. Now, the food is left there and we will get it!" Yi Zhi sat down and smiled softly.

When Baekje Fuyuzhang heard this, his eyes were lit up and he asked hurriedly, "Where? Where is there so much food? Why don't I know?" The Marce and the Shiwei people were all cavalry. Even if the food was really out of stock, they killed their horses to get food. Maybe they could still continue to return to their respective tribes, but Baekje's soldiers were all infantry, and it was impossible for the eight thousand infantry to walk back to Goguryeo all the way hungry.

"Liaodong City! There are millions of stones of food there. As long as we take down the Liaodong City, we will not only immediately relieve the food crisis. Moreover, the mountains of wealth accumulated in the city are also ours. I promised that as long as we capture the Liaodong City, all the other prisoners will be divided equally except for the people of Goguryeo, and I don't want one of Goguryeo." Yi Zhi threw out his own conditions. Now that it is time to end, he is also planning to be poor.

Tie An answered with disappointment, "Is this the general's plan? I don't think so. I have been attacking for more than ten days before, but I still couldn't take the Liaodong city. Now we only have one day's food left, but how can we attack the city? The emperor is not short of hungry soldiers and has no food to eat. How do you ask the men to fight?"

Gao Jianwu stood up and said in a deep voice, "Dear generals, we are all on the same boat now. If we cannot work together, then everyone will drown if the boat capsizes. What the general and I mean is that the general will immediately stop food and tell all the soldiers, so that everyone can understand that if we take the Liaodong City, we will have food, money and food, and women. If we can't take the Liaodong City, we will have nothing, and we will starve to death soon."

"I believe that if you fight with all your might and fight with your back, your soldiers will be able to die and survive! There are still many war horses, pack horses and donkeys in the army. Anyway, you can fight with your back and forth. You can't use these things to attack the city. We might as well kill the horses to get food. This will support you for another seven days. Within seven days, you must take the Liaodong City!"

"Where can't get Liaodong City within seven days?" Tie An answered and pressed.

Gao Jianwu said lightly, "If you can't take it, then this is the place where you and I will bury you and I will be buried. If you don't succeed, you will be successful!"

There was a silence in the tent, and no one spoke anymore. Tie An, Fuyuzhang and Huang Ge looked at me, and I looked at you, and their eyes were constantly communicating, but they could not make up their minds. The solidity of Liaodong City was far beyond their imagination. For more than ten days, they also watched the siege failures again and again. It was too difficult to capture Liaodong City within seven days.

This is a gambling life, and it is a very slim gambling life. Tie Anda and Huang Ge both wanted to retreat. They still had three days of food and horses. While they rushed back to the tribe, they killed horses on the road to satisfy their hunger. They had a choice.

Although this is equivalent to betraying the alliance with Goguryeo, and all the losses this time cannot be made up, but compared to the fact that the entire army is missing, he is more willing to return to the tribe immediately.

Gao Jianwu and Yizhi's faces were a little pale, and their hearts were full of tension. In this way, the three tribes really did not care about everything and wanted to bring their troops back. Then they had to consider the second plan they had discussed before. Tie Anda and the other three tribes were under house arrest, and they immediately attacked the city with their troops.

An emergency footsteps came, and a man shouted outside the tent, "Report to the marshal, emergency military information came from the detective cavalry!"

"Send it quickly!"

The sudden news broke the silence in the account and temporarily broke the tense situation that was about to break out.

"Report to the Marshal, the Explosive Horse Feiying who went to Liaohe to inquire, and a small number of the Sui Army's cavalry have been found near the Liaohe River. It is observed that they are the soldiers and horses of the Sui Army Zhang Xutuo who reinforced Liaodong City. At most two days, most of the Sui Army will arrive at the Liaodong City. Please be prepared early!"

It rained all night!

At this time, everyone in the tent was shocked. No one expected that the Sui army reinforcements could come so quickly, and in a blink of an eye, they had already arrived at the edge of the Liaohe River. In this way, when they crossed the river, they could reach the city of Liaodong in at most two days. At that time, if the Sui army attacked inside and outside, surrounded on both sides, and had already run out of food, the coalition forces would inevitably be defeated.

No one dared to imagine the ending of this, and there was no place to escape. After escaping for a while, they all could not escape the fate of starving to death without food.

"Zhang Xutuo came so quickly!"

"What should we do now? Even if we attack the city immediately, we are afraid that it will be too late. It is impossible to capture Liaodong City in two days." Huang Ge was completely panicked. They could run away just because they had no food, but the defenders of Liaodong City might not dare to chase them.

But with this new force that had just arrived, they would definitely have little hope to run away. If they wanted to run, they had to kill the horses, but if they killed the horses, they would definitely not be able to escape the Sui cavalry that was chasing them for thousands of miles in Liaodong.

Yizhi Wende strongly restrained his fear and turned to the person who reported the news, "Do you know how many soldiers Zhang Xutuo has?"

"Reply to the Grand Commander's words, according to the observation of the horses, the Sui army had nearly 20,000 reinforcements, and each of them brought two horses. There were a large number of horses behind them to carry food and grass, which came very quickly." The messenger said in all his heart.

Yizhi Wende and Gao Jianwu suddenly looked up at the same time, their eyes were tightly opposite each other, and the corners of their mouths raised, and a trace of cruelty passed by.

"I came just in time, with more than 20,000 horses and a lot of food and grass. You guys, I guess this will definitely be able to eat 300,000 people for a while, right?"

Gao Jianwu laughed a few times, "It's definitely enough that the food and grass transportation will come. Maybe we have already captured Liaodong City before the food and grass transportation will come!"
Chapter completed!
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